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Advogato blog for timen-usmod_virguleSat, 10 Dec 2016 01:11:27 GMTTue, 23 Oct 2001 10:32:32 GMT23 Oct 2001http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=8
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=8While playing around with some <a href="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbookx/" >DocBook
XML</a> tools for Red Hat Linux, I thought I'd actually
<i>use</i> them and write an <a href="http://cyberelk.net/tim/articles/cmdline/" >article</a>.Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:15:21 GMT2 Dec 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=7
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=7Released <a
href="http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/notary/">notary-0.0.2</a>
today. Now all my emails get automatically signed and
timestamp-corroborated (thanks to <a
href="http://alcatraz.labs.agilent.com/notary/">an
early-adopter</a>). Cool.Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:34:35 GMT11 Sep 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=6
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=6Just released <a
href="http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/vtgrab/">vtgrab</a>
0.1.1: now it's possible to actually control the machine
whose console you are observing, 'just like' you're at the
console (for very limited 'just likeness').
<p> Got communications going with the jazPiper, albeit
unreliably. I'm stuck at how to get the thing to switch
directions from reverse to forward, so at the moment I can
only send one command to it before the game's over. :-(Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:56:52 GMT4 Sep 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=5
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=5Today I received a jazPiper MP3 player in the post, two days
early! I'm going to try to write a driver for it before
Wednesday, so that I can surprise Laszlo with it before he
even expects me to have started..<p>
<p> First problem: it needs some batteries.Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:55:15 GMT1 Sep 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=4
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=4I have to move out all of the furniture in the living room
in order to make way for a carpet that's coming on Monday.
That will be fun..<p>
<p> Read some scary things yesterday about the (already scary)
RIP bill. I think I understand what a key-signing key is
for now. Maybe I should make one. The trouble with doing
that is that my fingerprint will change, and so I'll have a
bunch of business cards with the wrong information on.
Plus, I'll lose the signatures on my existing encryption
key. Grr.<p>
<p> It's table soccer time, but <a
href="http://www.advogato.com/person/jules">Jules</a> has
gone back to Holland. <b>Now</b> what?Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:49:01 GMT3 Aug 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=3
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=3Wrote tcpify last night, so that vtgrab can work over a
serial line or a TCP connection.<p>
<p> Discovered this morning that someone else has already
written virtually the same program with the same name. But
I think my code's better. ;-)Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:42:14 GMT28 Jul 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=2
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=2Anyone want to tell me what I've missed? Review the
protocol for VNCified virtual consoles that I just wrote: <a
href="http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/vtgrab/rvc/">RVC</a>
and let me know.Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:54:56 GMT28 Jul 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=1
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=1Today I heard that the <a
href="http://www.stand.org.uk/">Regulation of Investigatory
Powers Bill</a> passed its final vote. I phoned Demon
Internet (my dial-up ISP) to ask them how and when they
would implement the bit that requires them to intercept all
my traffic and send it to MI5; they didn't know.
<p> I also asked them whether or not it would be okay to arrange
with someone outside of the UK to have a virtual private
network, and send all my email via that, and if so whether
or not I'd be required to hand over the encryption key or
face jail; they didn't know.
<p> Bad.Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:33:40 GMT27 Jul 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=0
http://www.advogato.org/person/tim/diary.html?start=0Neat stuff landed in my inbox this morning. Jens Wagner has
at last cut a release of x0rfbserver, which can export your
current X desktop in a manner like WinVNC.
<p> Also, a guy sent me code to make vtgrab able to control
another machine's console, i.e. you press a key on the
observing machine and it makes the observed machine think it
was pressed.